Oh my word are these things good! Right, Lonely Boy - tell me where you bought your headphone amp from!
Anyway, onto the sound - music is sweet, supple and sonorous; bass is so accurate with frequencies being produced that even sub-£1000 sub-woofers could not hint at; the mid-range is sooo smooth and refined but has bite to it when needed and the treble...oh the treble! Nothing prepares you for the shock of hearing accurate treble!!! Symbols have a glisten to them and it seems as if the treble extends to infinity!
But the best thing about them? They made me forget about the "reproduction quality" or listening for faults with my equipment; I was loving the music! I was absolutly spell-bound with them - the Dire Straits WERE in front of me - THEY WERE, I KNOW IT! Mark Knopfler was singing to me, and me exclusively! The soundstage was so wide and accurate that I started to worry that I had my speakers on in front of me!
The SACD master of Dire Straits Brothers In Arms provided me with the music I needed - anyone familiar to "Your Latest Trick" will be pleased to know that on the GS1000s, the air of the room was so large, I was utterly surrounded by atmosphere of the music! And for those of you wondering what equipment was driving the world's most expensive cans, it was just the headphone socket of my A32 and the CD73 with four years of What Hi-Fi and EVO magazine piled on top!
For those of you - and there are many of you - seeking for the ultimate in hi-fi music reproduction, I suggest you audition the Grado GS1000s as soon as possible. They will put to shame your speakers, regardless of price - they supressed B&W 801D, MA PL300 and numerous Harbeth monitors which I have heard - they made music like nothing else.
The downside? You can't share the experience with anyone else...
Anyway, onto the sound - music is sweet, supple and sonorous; bass is so accurate with frequencies being produced that even sub-£1000 sub-woofers could not hint at; the mid-range is sooo smooth and refined but has bite to it when needed and the treble...oh the treble! Nothing prepares you for the shock of hearing accurate treble!!! Symbols have a glisten to them and it seems as if the treble extends to infinity!
But the best thing about them? They made me forget about the "reproduction quality" or listening for faults with my equipment; I was loving the music! I was absolutly spell-bound with them - the Dire Straits WERE in front of me - THEY WERE, I KNOW IT! Mark Knopfler was singing to me, and me exclusively! The soundstage was so wide and accurate that I started to worry that I had my speakers on in front of me!
The SACD master of Dire Straits Brothers In Arms provided me with the music I needed - anyone familiar to "Your Latest Trick" will be pleased to know that on the GS1000s, the air of the room was so large, I was utterly surrounded by atmosphere of the music! And for those of you wondering what equipment was driving the world's most expensive cans, it was just the headphone socket of my A32 and the CD73 with four years of What Hi-Fi and EVO magazine piled on top!
For those of you - and there are many of you - seeking for the ultimate in hi-fi music reproduction, I suggest you audition the Grado GS1000s as soon as possible. They will put to shame your speakers, regardless of price - they supressed B&W 801D, MA PL300 and numerous Harbeth monitors which I have heard - they made music like nothing else.
The downside? You can't share the experience with anyone else...
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